A New England Route!

We all are missing the New England Route. lets go up north. where i will start it. Heres what im planning on doing. Im gonna creat a route that has these railroads in it, Bangor & Aroostook, Canadian American, New England Central, CONN DOT, Guilford, Housatonic, and SLR. The Route will start off at Northern Maine Jct. in Bangor Maine there will be the junction Between GRS, BAR, and CDAC. it will works its way down to the Leeds Jct. Leeds Maine, then onto Auburn Jct, and Danvillie Jct. both in Auburn. from there it will head into the Portland waterfront. then From the Portland water front it will works its way down to Boston Mass. There will also be Branch routes included, those will be for BAR, CDAC, SLR, GRS, CONNDOT, HRRC, and NECR. its gonna be a big route and if you want the route map go here www.guilfordrailfan.com and go to system map. More info click my email below, i am plannin on haveing this route complete by, Aug. 31st 2004.

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That's wonderful news. Is it a passenger or freight route, or both? I would imagine the Boston link to be passenger. Do you think you will be on schedule? You're only giving yourself a little more than 90 days to release.BTW, the guilfordrailfan link is broken. I get a page not found error.Good luck and have fun.

Andy

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Its all frieght action, except Amtrak from Portland to Boston, and the Passenger lines down in Boston.

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I don't want to discourage you, but I hope you've got a good knowledge of the route editor and a good start. I've been working on my route off and on for at least 9 months now (probably 2-3 hours/day for at least 6 months working time), and I've barely put a dent in the scenery. I don't plan on being ready for beta for another 2-3 months, and that is provided I get back to working on it constantly again.Shawn

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this route is being cancelled, i will not create it because of these reason. #1 I only know the Rumford Branch, #2 way too big for me. #3 too much space to be taken. #4 it always crashes when i save it.

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Why not do the Rumford branch then?
#1 you know it
#2 not so darn big
#3 less to keep track of
#4 easier to backupRoutes don't have to be huge to be
interesting. Personally, I tend to
avoid activities that take more than
an hour anyway, so I for one would be
happy to see a small route with maybe
half a dozen places to switch cars
and some eye-catching scenery. Do you
have the guide to route building Mike
Vone wrote?A good activity would be picking up a
set of cars at the transfer yard, then
taking the train out and back, making
pickups and dropoffs along the way,
then running around the train for the
trip back at the end of the branch.Lloyd

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>this route is being cancelled, That didn't take long !!

Tim Kent – 96th_Malice - Winnipeg Canada

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The Rumford Branch i will do, but it will only be based on Guilford, theres passing sidings and alot of switches for cars to be dropped off. i dont need the book, but i have a hard time createin yards on a curve. lol

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Yards on curves are best done with dynamic track, although some consider dynamic track to be voodoo Best of luck!Shawn

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Thank Ya Much Shawn.

Shawn.
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You are welcome!Shawn

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Good god Shawn! you got me all excited. But Guilford's cool too. One NE route is better than what were at now. I'm in the thinking mode for the HRRC.-DaveCorection: Im in the DREAMING mode for the HRRC

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Hmmmm, the Housatonic, now THAT would be a cool route. I live close to Danbury, CT, so I occasionally see them pulling the garbage train

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My personal picks on a New England route would be somewhere on the BAR (now MMA) line from NMJ to Millonocket and the ex-NH Shoreline in southern CT. BTW have you seen the upcoming Central Vermont route? That's New England. We also have MBTA Boston to Providence.

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>Hmmmm, the Housatonic, now THAT would be a cool route. I
>live close to Danbury, CT, so I occasionally see them
>pulling the garbage train Glad to see that I'm not the only one who's ever heard of the HRRC. I live in Falls Village (Near Canaan), BTW.Also, have you seen alot of strange runs lately? Yesterday I saw 2 All-Garbage trains go by with one of the GP35's and one of the GP9's-Dave

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Glad to know ya, Dave!Two in one day? That is strange. Unfortunatly most of there runs are during the afternoon when I'm at work. If I catch a GP35 doing some switching on the old Maybrook south of Brookfield I'm lucky!You live near Canaan, egh? That sure is a pretty drive up Rt. 7. I go up toward Kent Falls alot during the summer. I love that waterfall.Have a great Memorial Day weekend!Dan Godfrey

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Dan,Yeah, it might be something to do with Memorial Day. I belive the crews get that one off. They made a run today (Saturday) with some more hoppers.Have a good one
-Dave

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hmmm. this gives me an idea, Who wants to work together on diffrent New England Route. I will do the Rumford Branch, and if any of you want to create a route, email me and i will give you info on a route that you can build. aslo I am expericanin problem with the Rumford Branch, everytime im in route editor or the game itself, it seems to crash at Decosters Egg Farm. i dont understand why. im gettin ****ed at it, anyone with info on why?

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What are you doing when it crashes? What is the last thing you did before it crashed?Shawn

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I saw them out there the other day as well. If you're interested, here is the link to their site:www.housatonicrailroad.comIt has a basic map of their services and eqiupment.I would be more than willing to assist in the creation as I live in the area as well!-rb

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Geeze! I don't know if I'm quite ready for this sort of task I cant even skin a loco, let alone a route.-Dave

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Ive gotten to Jay, Maine(Internation Paper mill) well the track work anywayz, im doing all the track work first, then im gonna do the scencery and all the stuff needed to be done. man i cant wait to get the track work done, then ill test it out. Leeds Jct to Rumford must be like 40-45 miles. kewl. lol oh and all my repaints are done, im just gonna wait awhile before i put them on the f/l.

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Well I better go dust off those DEMs of North Adams and Zoar. I'll give Hoosac Tunnel another whirl. Now if I can just figure out how to use DEMEX again. This time, feel free to help out if you want to. Make it a group effort.Hoosac

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uh. what?

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Hoosac Tunnel definitely gets my vote! I'd love to see Mechanicville to ...Portland via Ayer done. Make a nice connection to the D&H Route.James

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I agree James, Mechanicville or Rotterdam Jct to Rigby Yard would be the ultimate route for me. The only problem is that route would be like 300 miles of mainline. That might be a bit much to tackle.

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Well you got me all excited and then ruined my dreams minutes later but I'll forgive you. I have always wanted to do Boston to Portland. Only two reasons I don't. 1: Route Editor Crashing 2: I have no track charts so I don't know the grades. What I do have is USAphotomaps photos of the route, markers, Dems, Extracted terrain. For right now I don't plan on going any further because of the above two reasons. Unless anyone has track charts of ST district 2 that I could use...

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Sorry about that. I just had an terrible time building the first route with game crashes, and line relocations I just gave up. Well this time will be different. If anyone wishes to join up to do a group project on this route, please say so. As of now, I created a new route but haven't got the quad tree in yet. I only have the Zoar and North Adams DEMs. I'd like to make this route from North Adams to East Deerfield yard but now DEMS cost $ If anyone knows where to get DEMs from Zoar to East Deerfield for free, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.
Hoosac
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Try here:http://seamless.usgs.govYou may have to download your DEMs in sections to avoid having to pay for media.Shawn

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I got my DEMs from mapmart.com I think it was. It is suggested in the DEMEX tutorial which is burried on the demex website. They had everything in ST district 2 for free. You can only download like ten at a time but there is a way around that that works and is explained in that tutorial. Soooooo, your a district 4 kinda guy Hoosac. I'm more of a district 2 guy but I might be able to offer some help in constructing a route out there. The grades are certainly more challenging out there, and the tunnel would be neat too. Even if not with the route itself, I could reskin some stuff appropriate to the area. I might even be willing to try my hand at creating some custom objects if you could get pictures. I could do some activities as well. I've only made a few before but I had no trouble so I think I could do it again. But I don't want to get myself overcommitted by saying YES I'll build a route with you because with the nice weather just arriving its harder to sit in front of this computer if you know what I mean.

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I know what you mean by sitting in front of your PC while the weather is nice. I was thinking that I might make the tunnel double tracked like it was in the 50's. But I'm not sure if i should Electrify it or not. What do you guys think?

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well guys, can we all settle with the Rumford Branch? i mean, my god guys, this is mt first time to build and wanting to complete a route. theres no one im gonna do a 100 mile main line from Portland to Boston on my first try, but if anyone wants to, the grades are easy, mostly its 1% to 1.5% nothing higher, problem is i dont know where the grades are. as for the Rumford Branch, im not gonna do the grades, and the reason, my video card is out of date, so its not workin properly and i cant tell if the tracks are above or below ground, but if anyone wants to update the branch, email me and i will have to give you a list of what you need to edit it all.

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wakeboarder82, could you please tell me how to get to the DEMEX Tutorial so I can use mapmart like you said? Thanks.

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http://www.digital-rails.com/files/demex_tutorial.pdfThat should be it Hoosac. So you are really doing this huh? You're getting me all excited. I'm only 22 so I don't exactly remember the 1950's. I'm more interested in the current operations but however you choose to create it, I won't complain. I wouldn't really like the electrified track though. Oh yeah, take note, the tutorial tells you how to create the terrain with the unregistered DEMEX but I don't think you can distribute it if you don't do it with a registered version.

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